Flippancy is entirely what it merits. The only reason racists in this country might start trying to weaponise ‘Anglo-Saxon’ (as opposed to, say, ‘English’) is if academics persist in telling them it’s racist.
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I fear your response also weaponises the debate though. ‘Shield wall’ suggests a response which is utterly dismissive of the important concerns of anti-racist colleagues in a way that the scholars you’re referring to actually were not.
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I think if the Forum’s statements can be presented in this way, there’s clearly a problem. That statement is a terrible piece of writing that ties itself into rhetorical knots to both deny and accept how the term isn’t accurate and isn’t helpful on many levels.
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Oddly enough, a French antique dealer asked me "êtes-vous anglo-saxon?" on Saturday. I didn't have the heart to get picky with him.
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I don't think anyone is suggesting that we need to go around correcting French antique dealers... ;-)
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But if we cede every term to the Far Right that it has chosen to weaponise, (‘English’), we not only erase a whole lexicon from academic vocabulary, we invite extremists to smell our fear of them & simply extend uncontested the discursive terrain they have arbitrarily annexed
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No one has 'erased' the term, or asked for it to be banned (despite the headlines). Colleagues (especially BIPoC colleagues) have asked that we recognise the incredibly problematic history and associations of the term and be conscious and critical of our use of language.
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